This anti-expert bias seems strangely familiar. Almost as if... The last eight years... Were a bad dream...
He goes on to say he really has an anti-self-proclaimed-expert bias. A safe target, nobody likes a smug know-it-all. But sometimes the self-proclaimed expert is an expert. How do we know if we admit to being amateurs? We don't know, of course, but the odds are we should listen to people who demonstrate expertise and not dismiss them because they come off as smug or claim to have expertise.
Imagine, for a moment, Jeff was talking about Linus Torvalds. Or perhaps Paul Graham. How would you take this post?
This comes off as being worthy of the last administration: Pandering to people's prejudices and distrust of anyone who comes across as smart.
p.s. Does anybody else think this is just a continuation of his bashing people like Kent Beck and Robert Martin for daring to try to systematize agile software development with anything m,ore complex than Jeff's four rules?
He goes on to say he really has an anti-self-proclaimed-expert bias. A safe target, nobody likes a smug know-it-all. But sometimes the self-proclaimed expert is an expert. How do we know if we admit to being amateurs? We don't know, of course, but the odds are we should listen to people who demonstrate expertise and not dismiss them because they come off as smug or claim to have expertise.
Imagine, for a moment, Jeff was talking about Linus Torvalds. Or perhaps Paul Graham. How would you take this post?
This comes off as being worthy of the last administration: Pandering to people's prejudices and distrust of anyone who comes across as smart.
p.s. Does anybody else think this is just a continuation of his bashing people like Kent Beck and Robert Martin for daring to try to systematize agile software development with anything m,ore complex than Jeff's four rules?